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February 28, 2007
Egypt: 29 Muslim Brotherhood Financiers Have Assets Frozen
News from Associated Press and Xinhua:
29 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (al-Ikhwanu I-Muslimin or Hizb al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimoon) had their assets frozen in late January, on the orders of General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud, the Egyptian Attorney General. Earlier today, the Cairo Criminal Court upheld the asset freeze.
In elections held in late 2005, 88 members of parliament in the 454-seat lower house were elected while standing as "independents", but are members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Following attempts by members of the Muslim Brotherhood to assassinate President Nasser, the group was officially banned in 1954.
300 Brotherhood members have been arrested following a protest in December, which the government of Hosni Mubarak suggested was a move to take up arms. 50 Muslim Brotherhood members turned up at the December protest wearing balaclavas.
At the Cairo Criminal Court, where the 29 appeared behind bars, tere were protests. 200 people, the accused individuals' relatives and fellow Brotherhood members. protested outside the building.
In the court, Khayrat el-Shater, who is a strategist and one of the main financiers of the Brotherhood, shouted in the court: "This is a dictatorial regime, this is an autocratic regime."
A lawyer for the Brotherhood, Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maksoud, claimed the asset freeze was illegal and political, saying: "This is a message from the government, but it will not affect the Brotherhood's peaceful discourse."
The Brotherhood is not peaceful - its attempts upon Nasser's life stand as testimony to its terror activities in Egypt. Terror group Hamas was founded by a Muslim Brotherhood member - Sheikh Ahmad Yassin - and carries out suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader, has issued a fatwa declaring it to be "permissable" for Muslims to kill Israeli civilians in terror attacks.
The Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna. Originally it was merely a youth group, but soon became political. During the 1950s, under the spiritual leadership of Sayyid Qutb, the Brotherhood advanced the ideology of Islamism and global domination by Islam. Qutb was hanged in 1966.
President Hosni Mubarak has proposed amendments to the Egyptian constitution, which would prohibit the formation of any political party which has a religious basis.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 28, 2007 11:54 PM
Comments
I think the whole world needs to be reminded the Brotherhood, and their dream of world conquest, was formed TWENTY YEARS before Isreal, so the "palestinian issue" is an pathetic excuse for infiltration of other countries and demanding sympathy and funding for their goal to displace all teh peoples and cultures who do not submit to their philosophy.
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at March 1, 2007 10:48 AM
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